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What do catalytic converters do?

Chemistry For Your Life

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The Inorganic Chemists Don't Come at Me

One mole of something has however many 1.0, 2, 2 times 10 to the 23rd atoms present. So it's a sea of electrons in these metals that our gas emissions are coming from. And so they help facilitate the reaction by having all of these electrons just around. The type of reaction that they're facilitating is a specific kind. Can you guess based on what I've told you that nitrogen, nitrogen oxides become into an O2 and carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons turned into CO2 and water?

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